How to format your references using the Food Webs citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Food Webs. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Schiermeier, Q., 2001. Imported stem cells deepen Germany’s ethical divide. Nature 412, 4.

A journal article with 2 authors

DeSimone, D.W., Horwitz, A.R., 2014. Cell Biology. Many modes of motility. Science 345, 1002–1003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alarousu, E., AlSaggaf, A., Jabbour, G.E., 2013. Online monitoring of printed electronics by Spectral-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography. Sci. Rep. 3, 1562.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Treusch, S., Hamamichi, S., Goodman, J.L., Matlack, K.E.S., Chung, C.Y., Baru, V., Shulman, J.M., Parrado, A., Bevis, B.J., Valastyan, J.S., Han, H., Lindhagen-Persson, M., Reiman, E.M., Evans, D.A., Bennett, D.A., Olofsson, A., DeJager, P.L., Tanzi, R.E., Caldwell, K.A., Caldwell, G.A., Lindquist, S., 2011. Functional links between Aβ toxicity, endocytic trafficking, and Alzheimer’s disease risk factors in yeast. Science 334, 1241–1245.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Silverstein, D., Samuel, P., Decarlo, N., 2008. The Innovator’s Toolkit. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kreutzmann, H. (Ed.), 2012. Pastoral practices in High Asia: Agency of “development” effected by modernisation, resettlement and transformation, Advances in Asian Human-Environmental Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sanfelice Bazanella, A., Campestrini, L., Eckhard, D., 2012. Convergence to the Globally Optimal Controller, in: Campestrini, L., Eckhard, D. (Eds.), Data-Driven Controller Design: The H2 Approach, Communications and Control Engineering. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 89–117.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Food Webs.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Our ‘Rosetta Stone’ Gene Could Unlock The Secrets Of Schizophrenia [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/our-rosetta-stone-gene-could-unlock-secrets-schizophrenia/ (accessed 10.30.18).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office, 1980. First Look at Senior Executive Service Performance Awards/NASA (No. FPCD-80-85). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Neal, D.J., 2009. Prehospital Patient Triage in Mass Casualty Incidents: An engineering management analysis and prototype strategy recommendation (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Wagner, J., 2017. Wealth of Experience on the Mets’ Roster Comes With a Painful Cost. New York Times SP5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (DeSimone and Horwitz, 2014; Schiermeier, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (DeSimone and Horwitz, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Treusch et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Food Webs
Abbreviation	Food Webs
ISSN (print)	2352-2496
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